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The latest version of the SDK (Software Development Kit) for Google’s cloud platform App Engine comes with multitenancy capability, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. Google App Engine allows developers to build and host cloud-based applications on the same systems that power Google’s own applications. [ Keep up with software development issues [...]

Embarcadero Technologies will release later this month upgraded development tools for Windows and PHP as part of its RAD Studio XE suite. With the suite, Embarcadero will make accommodations for deploying cloud applications and also expects to battle Zend Technologies in the PHP development space. Embarcadero will officially announce the suite on September 1. [ [...]

Betting that moving to the cloud won’t be as easy as vendors promise, CA on Thursday bought 4Base, a consulting firm that helps companies adopt and implement cloud computing. “As strongly as folks want to believe that everything can be solved with a mouse click, the rise of boutique consulting firms focused on cloud and [...]

Everyone knows the big virtues of using cloud computing services: They’re cheap, you can scale them on demand, and they’re fault-tolerant. Everyone also thinks they know cloud computing’s vices: a variety of security and management concerns. What a lot of people have been missing, though, is that there’s another real problem with cloud computing: legal [...]

Microsoft is shifting its strategy away from pitching itself as a company that can offer companies a choice of software or hosted services, toward pushing the cloud, an executive said on Thursday at the software giant’s annual financial analyst meeting. A year ago, Microsoft was telling customers that the company is uniquely positioned because it [...]

Interest in the SaaS (software as a service) delivery model is growing to the point that by 2012, almost 85 percent of new vendors will be focused on SaaS services, according to new research from analyst firm IDC. Also by 2012, some two-thirds of new offerings from established vendors will be sold as SaaS, IDC [...]

Drupal Gardens, the planned cloud version of the open source Drupal content management system, went into a public beta stage Thursday, thus making it widely available for tryouts , said Drupal founder Dries Buytaert. The technology previously had been available through a controlled, private beta program, said Buytaert, founder and CTO of Acquia, in an [...]

Google and IBM came out on top as the leading cloud computing vendors in a survey of developers revealed this week by Evans Data. The biannual Evans Cloud Development Survey 2010, which polled more than 400 software developers, found that more than 40 percent cited Google as the public cloud leader. Nearly 30 percent identified [...]

Rackspace’s contribution of code to a new open-source project called OpenStack could help establish a counterweight to larger and proprietary players like Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), according to some observers. OpenStack, which was announced Monday, will include the code behind Rackspace’s Cloud Files and Cloud Servers technology. NASA is also involved, contributing software that [...]

Amazon and IBM are the “cloud champions” according to a new report, but Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat, and VMware are also among the list of heavyweights in the emerging cloud computing field. All tech vendors are embracing the cloud. Even those that don’t provide public cloud services are fighting to become the top builders [...]